New Shipping Delay for Korg Kronos to US?

burningbusch · Post by **burningbusch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:41 am

Maybe, instead of bad capacitors, black market parts and other conjecture posted above, what's really happening is demand is exceeding Korg's ability to produce an initial run of the product for the US market. So the product will be on allocation and in short supply. The pre-production, pre-Japan disaster schedule that KorgUSA put together with your reseller is now more concrete and maybe, Korg is only able to supply 1/2 or 1/4 of the units the reseller had requested, so pre-orders get pushed out.

It has been establish, the Kronos is shipping in all three varieties.

Look at Yamaha. When the Motif XF came out you could only find it at Guitar Center (maybe Sam Ash, don't know for sure). Sweetwater and other online retailers didn't get it till at least a month later, as I recall. In late April you could buy a Yamaha MOX6/8 from Sam Ash/GC. Sweetwater expects their first shipment in a few weeks. I would think that if Yamaha could supply all their resellers with product on the initial run, they would. Instead they seem to get it out to the biggest resellers first. And this is with products that had modest pre-sale demand--nothing like what apparently is going on with the Kronos. From what I've seen, Korg approaches this more democratically. Maybe it's first come, first served. I don't know.

My gut tells me we'll see some Kronos in the USA in June/July.

Busch.

jemkeys25 · Post by **jemkeys25** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:53 am

well at least the 61 will be out this month, which is great for me, thats the one i want.

sfernald · Post by **sfernald** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:16 am

I got a great deal on a motif xf so I got that instead. Don't want to wait X months. Probably makes more sense anyway since im a cubase guy.

Thanks guys for all the help on the forum and take care.

ak · Post by ak » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:01 am

There's Light at the End of the Tunnel

I will be getting my Kronos 61 by the end of next week (USA).

Flash & The Pan · Post by **Flash & The Pan** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:36 am

McHale wrote:*JUST* got a call from my Sweetwater rep. He said the date they were just given from Korg was...

SEPTEMBER

I'll leave my pre-order in, but not sure I'll care about it much by the time it comes out.

Mr McHale,

3 months ago I wrote..."Kronos" will be start to shipping with luck in September or October, and maybe, maybe"...as usual I received your critics...I was TOTALLY RIGHT!! YOU DUMM....something more to say?..."Say No More".

panrixx · Post by **panrixx** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:08 am

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EnjoyRC · Post by **EnjoyRC** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:10 am

jemkeys25 wrote:well at least the 61 will be out this month, which is great for me, thats the one i want.

Fine.... be that way...

tigersi · Post by **tigersi** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:12 pm

Well, for all it's worth, my dealer said he was called by his Korg distributor and my Kronos 61 will be at his place this coming Tuesday and will ship the same day to me.

panrixx · Post by **panrixx** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:25 pm

tigersi wrote:Well, for all it's worth, my dealer said he was called by his Korg distributor and my Kronos 61 will be at his place this coming Tuesday and will ship the same day to me.

Sounds good. Which location are you from (USA, UK, ?, ?)

rderderian · Post by **rderderian** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:49 pm

Sweetwater now says, September 2 on the 73 and 88, but the 61's are available in early June.

TSUNAMI · Post by **TSUNAMI** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:25 pm

OMG On the korg facebook page they have a pic of them in there warehouse .... its better than PORN !!!!

Teh Mick · Post by **Teh Mick** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:28 pm

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... e=1&ref=nf

TSUNAMI · Post by **TSUNAMI** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:31 pm

Thats the one !!!

Teh Mick wrote:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... e=1&ref=nf

MidnightPackage · Post by **MidnightPackage** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:46 pm

Ok, I am getting excited now

ScoobyDoo555 · Post by **ScoobyDoo555** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:49 pm

LOL - can't wait to see the pic from Korg UK!

"John? John!! Did we forget to place an order or something?"

"No, we forgot to tell anybody anything".....